Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I’ve been thinking about fresh approaches to instructional design. Instructional design was invented around the time of World War II. The training film was born, soon to be followed with the ADDIE model. Instructional purists still revere the logic of ADDIE. Learning requires motivation.

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Informal Learning and Learnscapes

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Being an Instructional Designer, my first thought was: this book makes me interact with it. Just as learning never ends, knowledge is never static and thus not “capturable” in the true sense…Because KMs have not been able to facilitate this fluidity, most have become document repositories. Sahana resides in Mumbai, India.

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New skills for learning professionals

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Last month I opened the IADIS eLearning 2009 Conference in Portugal with an address on Redefining Instructional Design. See Ellen’s Prerequisites for Instructional Designers. Reporters and bloggers unearth what is newsworthy and document it for the community. These tasks won’t happen by themselves.

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